The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

I agree with you that eating smaller fish in heavily populated rivers is sometimes the right thing to do...however the section of river which I'm speaking of has some serious fishing pressure and is not over populated. I saw people with spin rods and stringers of fish coming from up from the river all day. By Sunday evening the big holes around the camping area were fished out of all the big fish, and I had to fish pocket water to catch any fish of size. In these types of areas it is a nice gesture to the fish gods to let a trophy like this go. I'm not sure what you would consider a trophy in this river, but to me a fish over 20" out of the Middle Feather is large. I'd like to see some photos of those 30"ers and a treasure map to the golden hole!!